31% Predict Duke Will Win NCAA Championship, 33% Rooting for Butler
The men’s NCAA basketball tournament is living up to its nickname “March Madness” again this year.
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April 2, 2010
April 2, 2010
51% Rate Easter As One of Most Important Holidays
Fifty-one percent (51%) of Americans say Easter is one of the nation's most important holidays, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Nine percent (9%) think it’s one of the least important holidays, while 37% say it’s somewhere in between the two.
April 2, 2010
Ohio Senate: GOP’s Portman Holds Onto Small Lead
While the Ohio governor’s race is now a virtual tie, there’s been little movement again this month in the state’s contest for the U.S. Senate.
April 2, 2010
72% Support Offshore Drilling, 59% Favor It Off California and New England
Voters support offshore oil drilling more than ever, and most don’t agree with President Obama’s decision to limit where that drilling can be done.
April 2, 2010
President Obama: Another Carter or Another Reagan? By Alfred G. Cuzan
In his first year in the White House, Barack Obama’s job approval fell about fifteen points. (The source for all poll data analyzed in this article is the Roper Center.) This steep decline was unusual but not unprecedented for a new president.
April 2, 2010
Wyoming Governor: GOP Hopefuls Are Early Favorites
The suddenly open race for Wyoming governor finds the four top Republican contenders posting big early leads over their likeliest Democratic rival, Senate Minority Leader Mike Massie, in the first Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 telephone survey of the contest.
April 2, 2010
69% in New York Say State Better Off If Most Legislators Not Reelected
New York voters apparently are fed up with their state legislators.
April 2, 2010
Democracy and Domestic Violence By Joe Conason
When the Department of Homeland Security released a cautiously worded report on the potential dangers of right-wing extremism last April, the talk-radio wingnuts and certain Republican lawmakers went into spasms of indignation. Clearly, that report -- an innocuous nine-page document commissioned by the previous Republican administration -- had been conjured up by White House Democrats to smear conservatives.
April 2, 2010
Reading in Black and White By Froma Harrop
Such is our gadget obsession that the launch of a new electronic reader has set off a death match between two new-media gorillas, Apple and Amazon.com. Apple's iPad seeks to end the Amazon Kindle's domination of the market for devices that let you download books and read them on a screen.
April 1, 2010
Alabama Governor: Republicans Slightly Ahead in Wide Open Contest
With both parties' primaries just two months away, Alabama's gubernatorial race is wide open.
April 1, 2010
Alabama Senate: Shelby 59%, Barnes 32%
Alabama Republican Senator Richard Shelby is another incumbent who is facing little opposition to date on his road to reelection.
April 1, 2010
Partisan Trends: Number of D’s and R’s Both Grow During Health Care Debate
In March, the number of Democrats increased by just over a full percentage point and the number of Republicans increased by just under a full percentage point. This is consistent with other data showing that the health care debate heightened passions on both sides of the aisle.
April 1, 2010
51% of New York Voters Say Teachers Should Be Paid More Than Athletes
The New York Yankees payroll in 2009 was around $200 million dollars, more than the national GDP of 13 nations. The average player for the Yankees earned seven million dollars last year, making them the highest paid sports teams on the planet.
April 1, 2010
49% Think New Student Loan Plan Is A Bad Idea, 35% Like It
President Obama this week signed into law a plan that gets the federal government more directly involved in the student loan market, but just 35% of Americans think that’s a good idea. Most don’t think it will save the billions of dollars the president says it will, either.
April 1, 2010
Tea Partiers Embrace Liberty, Not Big Government By Michael Barone
Over the past 14 months, our political debate has been transformed into an argument between the heirs of two fundamental schools of political thought, the Founders and the Progressives.
April 1, 2010
Arkansas Senate: Republicans Build Leads Over Lincoln
Four of Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln’s Republican opponents now earn more than 50% of the vote as her path to reelection grows even steeper. The numbers are closer when Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter is the Democrat in the race, but only because there are more undecided voters.
April 1, 2010
Lower Prices and More Foreclosures Will Solve Housing By Lawrence Kudlow
With everybody focused on Obamacare, and its new entitlement spending and taxing, the administration has tried to sneak in yet another bailout for housing. Yet again, Team Obama is rewarding reckless behavior, punishing the 90 percent of responsible homeowners who are making good on their mortgages, and setting up a greater moral hazard that will surely lead to an expansion of bailout nation.
April 1, 2010
Obama Approval Index Month-by-Month: March 2010
When tracking President Obama’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results can be seen in the graphics below.
April 1, 2010
In the Bay Area, Karl Rove Was Arresting By Debra J. Saunders
Karl Rove knew how to fire up an already fired-up crowd at a Contra Costa County Republican Party lunch in Lafayette, Calif., on Tuesday. While a handful of protesters outside waved an "arrest Rove" banner, he hit ObamaCare, crowed about the "delicious opportunity" 2010 offers in defeating Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, and picked local tea party activist Sally Zelikovsky out of the crowd to extol her activism.
April 1, 2010
Ohio Governor: Kasich 46% Strickland 45%
Democratic Governor Ted Strickland and Republican challenger John Kasich are now in a virtual tie in Ohio’s gubernatorial race.
